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From Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon and NetherRealm Studios, creator of 2011's Mortal Kombat, Injustice: Gods Among Us is a new fighting game starring DC Comics heroes and villains. Injustice: Gods Among Us is due out April 16, 2013, and will be released on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii U consoles.

A God-like Roster

Comic book fans, rejoice! A large cast of DC superheroes and villains will clash in Injustice: Gods Among Us. Some notable names include:

Interactive Arenas

A lot of fights can be expected to take place in familiar settings like Batman's Batcave. Not only that, but players will be allowed to interact with the environment, using objects within the environment to use against an opponent, as well as switch through multiple sections of the same setting. For example, contenders begin in the Batcave and, as the battle wears on, wrestle their way through to the lower dock below or be kicked through a building to another part of Gotham City.[1]

In regards to executing environment-related attacks, each contending character seems to have individual animations for these (Batman will slam your head into the car, Wonder Woman will slam the car onto you). [2]

A Story Fit For the Gods

Injustice: Gods Among Us promises to deliver "a deep, original story" that involves a lot of the DC comic book icons. Each of them already brings forth incredibly varied and rich stories from which to build a new, more fantastical fighting game plot.

Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray will be the scribes responsible for Injustice: Gods Among Us' story. They've collaborated for many years before and have a decent pedigree in comic book-writing for both Marvel and DC.

Fatalities?

Mortal Kombat's signature bone-crushing, spleen-splitting, and ultra violent finishers known as Fatalities are nowhere to be found due to the game's presumable T-rating. Instead each hero or villain possesses a unique supermove. Superman, for instance, has a move where he launches his opponent into space, follows, and slams the hapless victim back down into the arena.

That's not to say that there'll be a lack of spilled blood. "To be honest, it's going to have more blood than we had in there today," Ed Boon said. "Our environments are going to be damaged, but the characters will also have damage on them as well. It's going to be a pretty brutal experience. Our goal is to push the envelope of what we can do."[3]

More Details To Come

The game was just announced on May 31, a mere few days before E3 2012.

Mastermind and Creative Director Ed Boon teases, "We can't wait to reveal Injustice: Gods Among Us because it will give our fans and gamers an epic experience as they battle like gods as their favorite DC Comics villains and heroes. Our team is excited to make a fighting game that is filled with fast-paced action, incredible story-telling and iconic DC Comics characters." More deatils regarding the game were revealed during the Evo 2012 tournament.

Expect more details to surface soon, as the developers work to create "a game unlike any other in the fighting genre."